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5 Tips for Meeting Your Sales Quota

What is the most important thing comes to your mind at the end of each month, quarter or year?

Without a doubt, it is whether your sales quota or targets have been met.

This is because it is the most important parameter for your enterprise to judge its performance.

But, how do you ensure that your sales targets are met or exceeded?

Well…that is precisely what we are going to discuss in this article. The objective is to underline the top tips to follow for meeting your sales quota.

Tips to Exceed Sales Quota

Focus More on Prospects Aligned to Your Company’s Solutions

Your sales team would perhaps be receiving a long list of leads at the start of every month. Instead of going after every new lead, it makes more sense to differentiate your potential customers from the rest.

Your team’s strategy should be to use analytics and data-driven tools, such as Salesforce, to determine the most desirable attributes in your prospects.

On this basis, you can assign a score to every lead. You may thus avoid spending time on prospects that are less likely to convert into buyers or subscribers for your business.

Offer Only Relevant Products for Sale and Avoid Upselling

If you are following up with a prospect that seems too eager to buy something from you, you may be tempted to sell more products than required. You may meet your short-term sales quota by upselling products and services to such customers.

However, they will soon realize that the products offered to them are not always the most optimum ones. This could have an adverse effect on your long-term relationships with such customers.

If this happens, it could seriously impact your sales quota calculation. This is because it is relatively easy for a sales professional to sell products to existing customers than to new prospects.

So, in the long run, you could lose out on some important repeat sales. Hence, it is important for you to offer long-term solutions for every new prospect or repeat customer and build trust.

You can do this by using analytics insights to identify the relevant product opportunities by comparing the buying behavior of your customers with their peer groups.

Challenge Your Customers when Needed

You can easily count on long-term existing customers to make repeat purchases from your business and help you move towards your sales targets comfortably.

However, this does not mean that you should sell them every product that they desire. You need to make honest suggestions and offer alternatives, if a particular product they asked for may not seem as relevant for their business.

You need to offer them the ability to view the products from all possible angles by providing them with well-researched and accurate insights.

Analyze Your Metrics for Continuous Improvement

Keep track of the number of leads you get every month and the amount you are able to convert successfully. You also need to track several other metrics, such as the number of follow-ups required and the number of leads that gave up after a few follow-ups.

This will help you understand the reasons why some leads did not convert. You can thus work on those reasons and make sure that you convert more such leads the next time round.

For example, some leads may have given up after a few follow-ups because you took more time to get back to them compared to your competitors.

You can avoid this situation by being well-prepared with all the information beforehand and using workflows (for example Salesforce workflow) for timely follow-ups with all qualified leads.

Offer More Value to Your Prospects by Taking Time for Self- Improvement

Another factor that can help you increase your sales count continuously and meet your sales quota comfortably is to keep learning. Sit for some additional time in the office or at home to learn more about your products from the product managers.

Spend time with a successful sales manager or sales rep to learn something new from them. Take online courses to improve your sales skills. Create an RSS feed to boost your industry knowledge regularly.

So, how do you meet your sales quota? Do you have any questions or points to add here?

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Ohad Oren

Ohad Oren is Co-Founder and COO of ONDiGO. Prior to ONDiGO he Co-founded several start-ups. Ohad has years of experience in Sales and Business Management. You can follow him on twitter on @OrenOhad
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